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Quote of the Day
"The connection between expected returns and financial planning means that clients with more-optimistic advisors are likely to save less. Not having to set aside as much sounds great—until the plan fails because the high returns never materialize."
(Dan Egan)
Day trading
- You shouldn't day trade, but if you do read this first. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Every bull market has a new media platform, this time around its TikTok. (finance.yahoo.com)
Trading
- How Tesla ($TSLA) has become one of the most traded stocks. (wsj.com)
- How HFT tools are getting repurposed in other less liquid markets. (finance.yahoo.com)
Crypto
Toy sales
- Toy sales in the US are down. The question is how much of that is due to the closing of Toys 'R Us stores? (axios.com)
- Mattel ($MAT) is having to downsize it footprint of manufacturing plants. (wsj.com)
Media
- Netflix's ($NFLX) Oscar push was a bit of a disappointment. (techcrunch.com)
- Is the New York Times' ($NYT) success coming at the expense of other media outfits? (theguardian.com)
Hedge funds
- Henry Ellenbogen has bucked the trend and raised a new $6 billion fund. (ft.com)
- They days of the star hedge fund manager are gone. (ft.com)
Global
Housing
- Home mortgage rates are at three-year lows. (axios.com)
- Why the next recession may not put a big dent on home prices. (marketwatch.com)
- Why do Americans fetishize the single-family home? (nytimes.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abormal Returns
- Adviser links: recognizing the fit. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Life lessons learned from the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness.' (allaboutyourbenjamins.com)
- Lessons learned from Chris Hadfield's book "An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth" including: "If you’re not sure what to be alarmed about, everything is alarming." (fs.blog)
- 'Becoming one thing in order to enable something else' is a story as old as time. (indeedably.com)
